Archives for December, 2007

YUI Compressor - JavaScript minification


In my current Silverlight project the amount of JavaScript is growing exponentially. Everything that I took for granted in Flash which took years to build and “perfect” now needed to be converted to JavaScript.
For the first beta release which is looming next week, the amount is about 130k. “Compressing” it with JSMin yields a file [...]

RIO - wrong number of arguments on rmtree, mkpath etc


It’s nice to do some Ruby once in a while. Lately I’ve been involved in a Silverlight project and haven’t touched Ruby in 2 months (hence the lack of activity on my Ruby blog). However, I’m making a build script in Ruby.
I have run into a weird exception when using my favorite IO gem RIO [...]

Morning Brew #89


Another cup of fresh Rails and not so Rails brew. If you’d like to send in a link, please use this page.
Rails

Rails 2.0: Release Candidate 2
Attachment_fu updated!
Installing Mingle with Capistrano/Deprec
RSpec and Inline RJS
Master/Slave Databases with Ruby on Rails

Ruby

Measuring your test coverage with Heckle and RCov
How To Start Playing With [...]